Hardcover, 358 pages
English language
Published Dec. 15, 2008 by Doubleday.
Wall Street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
Very annoying to read and I abandoned it 10% into the book. I guess some suspense happens later in the book, but I didn't care at all for the good guys and I despised the bad guys. I just read the plot summary on Wikipedia and skipped the rest.
Generally entertaining and diverting. Took a while to get into the plot of the story, particularly given the rather large number of characters within the three spheres of the story.
Some of the plot seemed a bit on-the-nose in the opening act, but things picked up in the second act with a rather dull and blunted third act which culminated in a modern-day version of a passion play.
Sadly, the end would have played better for me had there not been a note by Grisham at the end pontificating on his point in writing the book. The ending spoke for itself an artistic standpoint (though I read it for the entertainment and not for an artistic statement) and would have been better had I not read his note at the end.
непогано, але і нема чим надміру захоплюватися. «алея сикоморів» сподобалася мені значно більше приміром.
